Chhattisgarh Congress and Human rights activists on one side and Chief Minister Raman Singh on the other may differ on what transpired in the Bastar encounter. The fact remains that a number of innocent and defenceless tribals were killed. Raman Singh is one man to whom the only solution to the Naxal problem is the military solution. He is on record stating that Salwa Judum – held by the Supreme Court as illegal and unacceptable – is the only answer to Naxalism. Not too many days ...

Despite the different agricultural technologies helping India to increase its grain production in the past five years, there is no solution to the country’s hunger problem. As per a report, more than 3000 children die on a daily basis due to illness caused by malnutrition. Yet a huge amount of rodent infested rice and wheat is rotting in the field all across the nation. Unfortunately, dearth of better storage facilities and corruption inefficient, corruption-plagued public distribu...

Supreme Court freeing Mayawati from infamous disproportionate-case justifies Union Law Minister Salmaan Khurshid’s call for live telecast of court’s proceedings in larger national and public interest. System will clear doubts from minds of people about allegations made on country’s premier investigating agency CBI not pursuing cases in courts properly.

Time has come so that reforms may be made enabling people and media giving full freedom to comment on courts’...